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The current gameplay is that when we want to visit a city, we have to go to a spaceport where we land and go through customs. Would it be possible to land our spaceship outside the city, take our smuggled goods, carry them into the city and avoid customs and guards and everything?
Dan Trufin · Lead Systems Designer, Foundry 42 Frankfurt

Yes, yes and no, actually. Yes, you'll be able to do it, but avoiding guards is a matter of your own skill. It doesn't come free. You better be good at it. I'll give you an example of how we're kind of building Lorville right now. There's a main customs security checkpoint. It's very, very hard to pass something illegal through there. You better have either good luck or state-of-the-art equipment. Very hard. But if you want to do it, you can always come in through the outskirts. You land on the planet, you take a vehicle all the way to the outskirts entrances. There is security, but they're a bit more lax. You don't have to go through all the x-ray scanners and all this stuff. So there are guys patrolling with a handheld scanner. If they see you and they scan you, they'll probably get you. But if you manage to avoid them or find another way in, then you're good to go. But again, if you find another way in, let's say there's a service hatch open at a certain time of day and you go through it and you bypass the security, consider the fact that other people might have found it, and they're waiting for you to see what you're bringing through there. So there's, again, risk-reward. And if you're good at it, you get the reward. If you're not, sorry.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director, Foundry 42

For every player that's out there that wants to do all this smuggling, there's another one that wants to be the person to stop you doing that. And they're going to be learning the same tricks as you are.

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